This 2013 National Drug Strategy Household Survey report shows that: - fewer Australians are smoking daily and are smoking less cigarettes; - fewer people are exceeding the lifetime risk and single occasion risk guidelines for alcohol use; - overall illicit drug use has remained stable but some drugs have declined and some have increased; - alcohol continues to be the drug of most concern to the community but an increasing number of people are concerned about meth/amphetamines.

ISSN: 1442-7230

ISBN: 978-1-74249-665-8

Cat. no: PHE 183

Pages: 161

Findings from this report:

People in Remote areas twice as likely as people in Major cities to smoke daily and drink alcohol in risky quantities

Homosexual/bisexual people 2.7 times more likely to use illicit drugs than heterosexual people

Between 2010 and 2013, use of ecstasy, heroin and GHB significantly declined